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Indian-origin military man jailed for intercourse try on minor in Singapore

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SINGAPORE: A 50-year-old Indian-origin warrant officer with the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) was sentenced to 10 months in jail on Thursday for trying to have intercourse with a 15-year-old in 2021.

Subramaniam Thaburan Rangasamy pleaded responsible final month to 1 depend of sexually penetrating the minor who’s now 17, The Straits Instances newspaper reported.

Two different costs have been considered throughout sentencing at the same time as Subramaniam was suspended from all duties following his arrest.

A Ministry of Defence spokeswoman advised the Each day that SAF will take additional actions after court docket hearings, which can embrace discharging Subramaniam from service.

The incident occurred on December 6, 2021, when the sufferer was presupposed to have a web based assembly together with her faculty counsellor within the morning.

The Secondary 3 scholar was strolling down from the fifth ground of the carpark when she fell and hit a door, and Subramaniam helped her to her toes.

She thanked him and after chatting for about an hour on one of many flooring of the carpark, they grew to become intimate.

Subramaniam tried to have intercourse together with her, however failed, following which they parted methods and exchanged numbers, the information report stated.

The court docket heard that they remained in touch by way of WhatsApp, however the messages weren’t of a sexual nature.

Two days after the incident, the woman made a police report as a result of she felt that Subramaniam had taken benefit of her.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Sunil Nair had advised the court docket in earlier proceedings: “The accused was not at any time misled as to the sufferer’s age. The accused didn’t pressure or coerce the sufferer to be intimate.”

For penetrating a minor under 16, an offender may be jailed for as much as 10 years and fined.

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